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She hopes both books will provide a lasting legacy to those people she describes as ‘NHS heroes’.

Gillian, said: "We have shown our appreciation to NHS workers by clapping every week and creating these books would be a way of celebrating the lives of those who have died as a result of coronavirus and also recognising those who have put their lives at risk.

"These books will preserve memories by capturing the NHS superheroes’ names and the depths of their heroics, to inspire people in the future."

The student aims to send a copy of the non-fiction book to every affected family and hospital across the UK.

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Gillian added: "The fictional book will use the roles and jobs of real NHS workers in a story setting to help communicate to children what has happened and why these people are heroes.

"We hope to print both books if we get enough funding. We have set up a page on Just Giving to raise money. If this is successful, we can distribute the books to individual supporters, libraries, bookshops, schools and hospitals.

"If we get part funded then the children’s book could be created as a physical book and perhaps the adult book could be made available free on Kindle."

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She now hopes that families of NHS frontline workers who have died from Covid-19 will get in touch with her so she can begin a conversation with them about how to bring their stories to light.

Any profits and money raised in excess of the book production costs will go to the selected charities of our NHS Superhero families.

People can choose an existing story and have Gillian adapt it or can come up with a completely fresh story which Gillian writes and illustrates with watercolours.

The books will effectively be created free of charge, funded either by donations, through Gillian's work as an illustrator and doing art workshops in schools, or through crowdfunding initiatives.

Any family member considering asking Gillian to include details of an NHS worker who has died as a result of coronavirus in her proposed book can contact her via email at gillianseale@tailoredyarn.com.

The Just Giving page which is raising funds for the two NHS books is here.